On the blog today, we cap-off the career of catcher Jake Gibbs with a 1972 card, as Gibbs played the last of his ten Big League seasons in 1971, all with the New York Yankees:
Gibbs
appeared in 70 games for the Yanks in 1971, hitting .218 with 45 hits
in 206 at-bats while filling in for a young Thurman Munson.
Though
he only appeared in nine total games between 1962 and 1964, Gibbs spent
his entire career in the Bronx, with 1967 and 1968 as the only full
years during his Major League career.
Overall, Gibbs finished
with a .233 batting average, with 382 hits over 1639 at-bats, with 157
runs scored, 25 homers and 146 runs batted in.
Along with
others like Mel Stottlemyre and Horace Clarke, Gibbs was one of those
players that "lived" through the Yankee dark era of the latter-half of
the 1960s.
